A coin selector prevents illegal actuation of a coin sensor for real coin
detection and is reduced in size and has a high coin processing rate, and
which can cancel a coin to be cancelled reliably. The coin selector
detects the passage of a coin based upon a signal from a coin sensor
disposed downstream of a real/fake discriminating unit formed along a
coin passage through which the coin moves. A moving direction changing
unit for a coin is provided on the coin passage downstream of the
real/fake discriminating unit and the coin passage downstream of the
moving direction changing unit is disposed on a plane different from a
plane on which the moving direction changing unit is present.